So to get the ball rolling, United have publicly advertised for a ‘Recruitment Analyst’ on everyone’s favourite job listings website Indeed.

Working within the club’s scouting and recruitment department, the ad states the club is looking for someone who will “collate and analyse Manchester United specific technical, tactical and physical benchmarks”.

Well, first off, you’d need to be well qualified in the field of sport science.

The bare basics are that you’ll need a sport science honours degree – “preferably a master’s level qualification” – as well as training in performance analysis (essentially, watching and re-watching training videos; the kind of thing Marcelo Bielsa does for fun).

Then, you need to understand the technical and tactical demands of professional football.

As we all know, Jose Mourinho has very ‘specific’ way of setting up his team (get the bus memes in, lads), so the player would need to work well within the Special One’s unique system.

United's scouting overhaul continues. Now on the lookout for a recruitment analyst to identify new signings for first team. Comes a month after Romain Poirot was named France scout. Also plan to appoint technical director/DOF before end of year ideally #mufc

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